Porn star Stormy Daniels says President Donald Trump
had Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger take her
back to her hotel room a day after her romp with the future
president in 2006.

Daniels made the comment in 2011 to InTouch, which
published the full interview Friday.

The comments were published after The Wall Street
Journal reported that Daniels received $130,000 from Trump's
lawyer just weeks prior to the 2016 election to keep quiet
about the alleged encounter.

Porn star Stormy Daniels told celebrity gossip magazine
InTouch in a 2011 interview that President Donald Trump had
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger walk her back
to her hotel room after she and the future president had an
alleged romp.

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Daniels reportedly received $130,000 from Trump's lawyer before
to the 2016 election to keep quiet about the alleged 2006 sexual
encounter, The Wall Street Journal reported last week.

Daniels told the tabloid that the night after she hooked up with
Trump, which she says happened at a Lake Tahoe celebrity golf
tournament, she caught the Manhattan billionaire at a party with
the the young Steelers quarterback, who was coming off of his
first Super Bowl win.

"When I got there, he was already with him," Daniels said. "He
had Keith, his bodyguard, call me and ask me if I was coming.
When I got there, I called Keith and he told me where he was
sitting and he brought me over. And he was hanging out with Ben
for a long time. A couple other people around, nobody famous.
Mostly people trying to hang on to them."

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She said Trump "excused himself" from the table and made
Roethlisberger "promise to take care of me."

"I stayed another 15-20 minutes and Ben Roethlisberger actually
walked me up to my room that night because Donald told him to,"
she continued. "Yeah, he walked me all the way to my hotel room."

Roethlisberger has twice faced allegations of rape and legal
proceedings stemming from the allegations, including one that he
raped a woman in his hotel room at the same Lake Tahoe celebrity
golf tournament just two years later. That civil suit was settled
in 2012.

The quarterback has a somewhat longstanding relationship with
Trump.

Just prior to the election last
fall, Trump mentioned during a Pennsylvania rally that he and
Roethlisberger were friends, telling a story about a time the duo
was golfing and the quarterback hit a ball into a tree so hard
that he killed it.

"The ball hit the tree so hard, I swear I said, 'Ben, within two
years that tree is going to be dead,'" Trump said. "And you know
what? Two years later … that tree was dead. He is a strong guy,
and a good guy, too. Big Ben."

"We love Big Ben," he said earlier. "Big Ben is a friend of
mine."

The Wall Street Journal
reported last week that one of Trump's top lawyers sent
$130,000 to Daniels just weeks before the 2016 presidential
election to keep her silent about the encounter.

Citing people familiar with the matter, the newspaper reported
that Michael Cohen, who was the Trump Organization's top attorney
for about a decade, arranged for the payment to Daniels, whose
real name is Stephanie Clifford. The payment followed a
negotiation between her lawyer and Cohen on a nondisclosure
agreement.

Though the president faces more than a dozen allegations of
sexual misconduct dating back decades, "in this matter, there is
no allegation of a nonconsensual interaction," The Journal
reported.